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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard
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when I think there’s nothing to write about, there usually is . . .
I’m still trying to devise some apparatus that increases the hours in my day. Or blinders so I will ignore all the distractions that keep me from staying on task. It keeps being midnight and I keep still having a lot that hasn’t gotten checked off my list. I’ve been half heartedly listening to an audio book entitled Hands Free Mama and I think I audibly gasped when the author talked about literally throwing your to-do list in the trash. That feels like Crazy Talk to my brain. (But I’m still listening and thinking. Listening and trying to remain open to all I am hearing. We’ll see.) I’m also reading through…
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Five Finds Friday (seventeen) (kayaks and gouda grilled cheese and the bad lip reading)
FUNNY I can’t put my finger exactly on why this is so funny. But it just is. There’s Jack Black’s voice in there and it’s such ludicrous lip reading. FASHIONABLE Dapper Ink is a local print shop. Their work is fabulous. (I have the best little business cards designed by Emma and printed by Dapper Ink. I love them.) They have a new(ish) project called The Landmark Project. I love all of their shirt designs. But I am especially fond of this one. (I do wish they carried it in the women’s cut.) FLAVORFUL I brought this favorite grilled cheese version out when all the buddies were here for that…
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that’s right, john ronald reuel
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Five Finds Friday (sixteen)
Well. This Friday came faster than others now, didn’t it? FUNNY Sometimes we just can’t help ourselves – the kids and I. We get started watching old Tripp & Tyler videos and we just keep clicking and clicking. I don’t know how we missed this one, but the Truth or Dare episode is hilarious. I want to play this version now – I’m looking at you Abby. I’m looking at you. FASHIONABLE Before I ever met Sean Penn I made friends with a sling back purse. The newest version from Patagonia is updated with some different zippers, but it’s still basically the same bag. I think mine is going…
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The Half Marathon. That I ran. Yes. I did.
Up until a few days ago I had never run farther than six and a half miles at one time. And that was only once. I still don’t know how to exactly think of myself as a runner. Remember my first 5K? I have zero explanation for how this happened but at some point in the past five months or so Amanda and hannaH said they were planning to run a half marathon. We were eating dinner. I smiled at them. They talked about the women who were signing up to run it with them. I smiled some more. Made some joke wondering why they hadn’t invited me into…
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dear friends ….
I am very tired. A lot busy. Too many spinning plates. Yesterday might have been an extra day on the calendar but it certainly doesn’t feel like an extra day in my schedule. My to-do list is unnerving and I think I have let the list get lopsided. I have a hard time returning texts and answering phone calls and checking off all the boxes. And I have no Brain Space for Any Of The Words tonight. So, if you’ll please forgive me, I’ll be back soon with regular words and regular thoughts. Until then – you’ll still be my friends, right?
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Five Finds Friday (fifteen) (loose tooth and BBQ sauce. unrelated.)
Hooray. It’s Friday. FUNNY I have six children. They each have a mouth. And in those six mouths you would find the normal human amount of teeth. And – during the course of five of their lives – they have all lost the normal amount of baby teeth. I’m not great at math and I’m unwilling to figure out the exact number but you can assume with me that the baby teeth lost numbers are high in this family. Yesterday Otto – the baby of the family and the Keigley with the most baby teeth still in his mouth – lost his FIRST tooth. It was perfect poetic justice that the…
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is “alone” a curse word?
Life is funny. (And by funny I probably mean about one thousand other words but funny works too so let’s just stick with that one word.) I had this experience a week or more ago. Life handed me about two hours, a sold out movie to which I had received two free tickets and alone time as my daughter, who was to attend said movie with me, had a sick husband to tend to. So what do you do with two hours, a movie you can no longer watch, an already planned childcare arrangement and nothing that has to be accomplished? You go into a nearby Barnes & Noble and…
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writing without a plan. (rambling, in other words)
I had a web hosting snafu this week and the blog was down and out for a while. But I’m all back now and I think I have a plan. (It was actually very comforting to receive the texts and messages alerting me that my blog was unavailable. Made me feel loved by you guys, knowing that you read the words and click over to this space. Thank you, friends.) I’m a little here and there with a handful of loose ends these days so I don’t have a stopping or a starting point tonight as I write this. Last Sunday we had baptisms at church. Man. I start to…
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Five Finds Friday (fourteen)
I think the weeks are passing by too quickly. It keeps being Friday before I am ready. This week it’s all about the photos. I just scrolled right through my recent photos and let them be my guide to this week’s Five Finds Friday. FUNNY This girl is funny. She’s been adding in clever accents and witty banter and good timing with mildly snide remarks. What can I say? Sarcasm is my love language. (Also. This photo is stand alone funny as well.) FASHIONABLE It’s definitely still winter here. But summer is a-coming and hotel pools are still an option when one is on a road trip or whatnot. So…
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telling it again and again
Over the past few weeks I’ve seen this idea pop up many times. The idea that it is in the retelling of a painful story that some of the pain can be eased. The idea that with more and more tellings of one’s darkest stories that the distance between the experience deepens and the hurt lessens. On our last visit, Sherry reminded me that when you can tell your story without crying, you’ve made progress. It’s so important to have friends and people with whom to tell your story. It’s why sometimes you find yourself telling your story to complete strangers – like a practice round or something. It’s why…
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Five Finds Friday (thirteen)
I kind of cannot believe I’ve been doing these little Friday features for this long. I’m pretty sure I still like doing them. Are you guys pretty sure you still like reading them? FUNNY Otto still has his blanket friend. You know – Baby Timmy. Uncle Douglas created a new way for Otto Fox to keep Baby Timmy close by. (Maybe this should go under “fashion” instead of “funny”.) (And. You don’t have to tell me. That blanket looks ….. gross too loved.) FASHIONABLE Have you ever heard of Title Nine? I don’t know why their catalog appeared in my mail once upon a time. But it did. And I…
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people. loving other people. (and a Grizzly Adams reference)
I think sometimes about disappearing. Moving away into the mountains and going all Grizzly Adams and Sign of the Beaver. Little House on the Prairie and back to the land. You know. And giant and huge parts of me think that sounds so fabulously incredible and dreamy and fantastic and all things wonderful. But goodness – we need community. (And by we I mean more than just my immediate family. I mean the collective we. You and me. Us. Everyone. We.) We were born for community. We were not made to be lone rangers and just me and Jesus kind of people. We need other people. God gave us people. Joys are…
